The 'Burbs
by Joe Dante
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Actor: Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman, Rick Ducommun, Tom HanksDirector: Joe Dante
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Robert M. Stevens
Producer: Dana Olsen
Writer: Dana Olsen
Producer: Larry Brezner
Producer: Michael Finnell
Producer: Pat Kehoe
Producer: Ron Howard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
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Summary: 5 Stars
Good movie. Very easy to purchase and obtain. Was mailed in a reasonable timely fashion. Everything went smooth, no problems.
Summary of The 'Burbs
Hanks is a mild-mannered suburbanite whose idyllic neighborhood is turned upside-down when a suspicious family moves in. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/03/2003 Starring: Tom Hanks Bruce Dern Run time: 102 minutes Rating: PgRay Peterson (Tom Hanks) would like nothing better than to spend a quiet week's vacation in his suburban home, drinking beer and watching TV. But, spurred on by his two friends' spinning of boyish paranoid fantasies about their reclusive neighbors, the Klopeks, the usually down-to-earth Ray begins to suspect his idyllic neighborhood has been invaded by an evil force, to the point where he and his friends become psychotically nosey. You see where this is going, and you see it from a mile off. Only the general surface-thin plot is somewhat offset by director Joe Dante's fine sense of the absurd, and a host of engagingly played neighbor-types, namely Rick Ducommun as Ray's best friend who's always proposing bad ideas, and Bruce Dern as a sometimes wild-eyed ex-vet who'd love some action. Dante and crew seem to have a knack for keeping these broad characterizations light enough that you don't mind their superficiality. But the best jokes in this unprepossessing film come from composer Jerry Goldsmith's score; Bruce Dern's presence, for instance, is announced by the theme from Patton, and the boys' first approach to the Klopeks' for a meet-and-greet is buttressed by classic strains from Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns. Kudos to the Klopeks, for their evil ways are ably embodied by Henry Gibson, Courtney Gains, and Brother Theodore. In particular, any suburb that finds it's inhabited by the likes of Brother Theodore is in dire need of new zoning laws. But Carrie Fisher's role as Ray's amiably long-suffering wife is thankless, and she deserves better. --Jim Gay
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